Robader @robaderlex

Harvey is valued at $11B. Legora just raised at $5.5B. I built their entire web application in two weeks and I'm making it open-source and free for everyone to use. Say hi to Mike: mikeoss.com. When I got the chance to try Harvey and Legora, I was surprised by how simple they were. A thought came to mind: I could probably build something similar in no time at all with Claude. And so I did. Assistant, project, tabular review and workflows. You get it all without vendor lock-in. Mike offers law firms an alternative, where they own the application layer and aren't stuck with a vendor they're renewing forever. You can try Mike in the demo on the website, or go to the GitHub link on the site to download the code and run a local version yourself.

I know an associate in Biglaw who is a top 5 power user of AI at his firm. He’s not just making AI slop, he checks everything that the AI produces and verifies the all citations with actual sources, even though AI gets it correct most of the time these days. Recently he’s been told by his partner that, he’s “over confident”, that he’s working too fast and that he needs to check his work more, even though the partner could not pick out substantive issues in his drafts. I told him it’s likely code for: you’re running up a bunch of tokens and costing the firm while affecting my top line since I could normally bill the client twice for this work. As such, he is now forced to take longer on his work with little substantive impact on the work product while the client gets his bills multiplied. That’s probably part of the reason why despite the billions that have been invested in legal AI for Biglaw, there is barely any productivity increase and clients don’t see their bills go down by one cent.

JP Mohler @jaypmo

2 weeks ago

Investing in AI does not change what a law firm rewards. If the incentive is still to log more calls, do more busywork, and bill more hours, a new tool will struggle to change the outcome.

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a computer cannot be held accountable, therefore a computer must not make a legal decision human accountability on legal matters is a valuable scarce resource possessed by each attorney AI increases the impact of this scarce resource by orders of magnitude. The resulting increase in supply of legal services lowers the price of each task, which in turn increases overall demand for competent legal services it also means your work is more interesting. AI cleans up the busywork and leaves the interesting stuff to you Jevon's paradox

AI Legal startup Harvey is raising $200M at an $11B valuation They've reached: $190M ARR 1,000 customers 100,000 lawyers on platform Below is their 2025 in review deck:

Introducing GLM-Legal Built on GLM-5.3-Flash, GLM-Legal matches frontier models on mainstream legal benchmarks. Designed for real legal workflows: contract review, evidence analysis, compliance, and more. Tech Blog: z.ai/blog/glm-legal Apply for API Access: z.ai/consultation/l… Try AutoClaw: autoclaw.z.ai

@boardyai Legal Engineer

Too junior for law firms. Not experienced enough for Legal AI. Too in love with AI to hate it. I just wanted to be a lawyer. Your Honour, WHERE IS THIS LITTLE BOT SUPPOSED TO GO???

Maybe I’m just in the wrong industry. Maybe Legal AI is where I belong. Law + AI + building things = finally, a place for me? opens Legal AI company’s careers page “3–5 years of experience required.” YOU TOO???

People keep telling me AI is taking junior lawyers’ jobs. But AI is literally the reason I can do half the things I do. Am I supposed to embrace it or hate it? I can’t bring myself to hate it. I LOVE figuring things out and building solutions with AI. Is that a crime now?

I taught myself to code with AI. Automated document processing, evidence sorting, debt recovery and insolvency workflows. Days of work reduced to hours. Even outbilled some lawyers with 3 years’ experience. Job market: “0 PAE? Next.”

Did AI steal junior lawyers’ jobs, or did the legal profession just forget that junior lawyers need jobs to become senior lawyers? Every job posting: “2–3 years PAE.” “3–5 years PAE.” HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET EXPERIENCE IF NOBODY WILL HIRE ME???